I am a NYC Firefighter and made contact with the iss today. had a nice QSO with Col Wheelock about being able to see the WTC tribute in lights at ground zero from space. this is the longest QSO i have had with the space station to date.

I started calling for NA1SS as the pass started for me at 2159 UTC. Just after 2200 UTC Doug came on the radio. He heard my call for NA1SS, and asked for "Whiskey Kilo". I had a nice quick chat with him. Doug mentioned he was accompanied by his Russian crewmates Sasha Skvortsov, Misha Korniyenko, and Fyodor Yurchikhin. At the end of our QSO, the Russian ISS commander, Sasha Skvortsov, said some words to me in Russian.

Dr. Shannon Walker (NA1SS) speaks to students at the St. Louis Charter School in St. Louis, MO on 11 November 2010 at 1810 UTC. I missed the beginning of the contact, but Dr. Walker answers the following questions in the recording:

4. Do you see space trash very often? If so, what does it look like?
5. What are some jobs you have on board the ISS?
6. For how long have you been in space?
7. When you look out your window, what are some features that you see in space?
8. How does the space shuttle sound and feel once you blast off?

Mike Fossum (NA1SS) speaks with students at Pine Tree Middle School, Longview, TX, USA on 09 September 2011 at 1452 UTC via WE5PT. Fossum answers the following questions in the recording (which starts well after the beginning of the contact):

10. What’s it like to work at the ISS?
11. How does it feel to be in zero gravity?
12. How many days of food, water, and air do you have aboard the ISS?
13. What is the most interesting thing you’ve done during the mission?
14. If you weren’t an astronaut, what would you be and why?
15. Is it really hot or cold in space?